Total Commissions CCS Demonstration Plant in France

2:35 AM MST | January 11, 2010 | Natasha Alperowicz

Total today inaugurated Europe's first end-to-end carbon capture, transportation and storage (CCS) demonstration facility at Lacq, France in the presence of Valerie Letard, France's Secretary of State for Green Technology and Climate Negotiations. The €60 million ($85.6 million) project will help to tackle climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities that use fuel oil, natural gas and coal, such as power, steel, and cement plants and oil refineries. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on...